It is understood that a video circulated yesterday(August 5), referring to an arson incident in a residential house in Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Skudai.
A man covered in black clothing and wearing a black mask and headscarf threw two bags of gasoline bombs into the house and then threw a cloth on fire to set it on fire, threatening the owner to pay his brother’s debt, but the owner’s brother insisted that he was not in debt.
The loan shark was suspected of using other channels to obtain information about the victim, and then “forcing debts” with intimidation and fraud.
Johor Chief Police Chief Datuk Ayuk Gan was asked about the incident at a press conference today. He responded that the police are actively pursuing men suspected of being involved in illegal lending and loan shark activities.
He said that at the time of the incident, the 36-year-old victim was sleeping, but he received a video via a strange Whatsapp SMS at 10:30 in the morning yesterday. The content was about an unknown man who left two in front of his house.
“The two bags were believed to contain gasoline, which was thrown into the house and set on fire.”
Ayuk Gan pointed out that prior to this incident, the victim had received threatening messages that his brother had not repaid the borrowed money, but the victim’s brother denied that he had borrowed money.
The arson incident caused a loss of approximately RM300 to the victim. The police are pursuing the suspect and are investigating the case by invoking Article 436 of the Criminal Code (Hoax used to deliberately destroy the house with fire or explosives).
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